By Joseph Harris
''Like all writers, intellectuals have to say anything new and say it good. yet not like many different writers, what intellectuals need to say is certain up with the books we're interpreting . . . and the guidelines of the folk we're conversing with.''
What are the strikes that an instructional author makes? How does writing as an highbrow swap the way in which we paintings from assets? In Rewriting, a textbook for the undergraduate school room, Joseph Harris attracts the varsity writing pupil clear of static rules of thesis, help, and constitution, and towards a extra mature and dynamic knowing. Harris wishes collage writers to consider highbrow writing as an adaptive and social job, and he deals them a transparent set of strategies—a set of moves—for partaking in it.
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Stereotypes of verbally deprived workers come to mind: Archie Bunker with his malapropisms, Ed Norton braying numbly on The Honeymooners.
Or let me put it this way: Summarize when what you have to say about a text is routine and quote when it is more contentious. Here, for instance, is I. F. Stone, in The Trial of Socrates, pointing to what he sees as a key difference between the worldviews of the ancient Greek philosophers Aristotle and Plato: Plato was a theorist, Aristotle a scientific observer. Aristotle prized practical over theoretical knowledge in dealing with human affairs. Aristotle had a strong bias in favor of experience and common sense.
They are salient moments from his perspective as a reader. They show him rewriting their work as part of his own project. You’ll have noticed that I say of Stone’s approach that it seems “reasonably fair” to Plato and Aristotle. Those may seem waffle words, but I don’t mean them as such. On the contrary, the question of what counts as a fair reading lies at the center of much academic argument. Several of Stone’s critics felt that he failed to represent the work of Plato and Socrates very well, just as some of Gilligan’s readers thought that she misunderstood Freud.